We must return the Government to the people and make it serve the people.

Give me your mandate.

I take our case to you because I am confident that you are willing to do whatever has to be done to make us first in the world militarily, and thus first in the fight for peace.

I want to express my thanks to all of you for coming down to this airport to meet us.

This is a time for strong leaders - leaders who are not afraid of New Frontiers - leaders who are not afraid of the facts - leaders who can turn our dreams into reality.

I wish it were possible to report on this Labor Day that all is well with our democratic economy.

I am here to ask for a mandate - a mandate to achieve the promises of that stirring and historic document the 1960 Democratic platform.

But the problem of automation is a national problem - and we must begin to think about it on a national scale.

Yours has been a pragmatic movement basing itself on achievement and progress rather than on some abstract economic and political theory.

We must restore full employment to our schedule of national priorities - striving - for a more rapid growth of the American economy.

May I say, then, God bless you in your efforts.

The Presidency of the United States carries heavy responsibilities, especially in the so grave times of international tension.

A Gallup poll taken in 10 countries a few months ago asked the people of those countries who they thought would be first in 1970, militarily and scientifically, the Russians or the United States.

I take our case to you because I am confident that the American people want an enduring peace in which human dignity, truth, and justice under law are secured for all men everywhere.

May I offer my congratulations to the members of organized labor on this 1960 Labor Day.

I take my case to you because I am confident that the American people are not going to tolerate pockets of poverty and chronic unemployment in this land, the waste of idle men and women who are ready, willing, and able to work, or the…

We need a clean sweep with a new broom to make America worthy of its great ideals and traditions.

And finally, I am here because I know we share a deep-seated belief in free collective bargaining, and in the growth and development of free and responsible unions - and unlike our opponents, we do not believe in this only on Labor Day.

This is a great State, Michigan, but it can be a greater State.

I call upon all Americans to join in the great effort to rebuild our country and strengthen the cause of freedom.

We must act and act promptly - to solve the problem of automation which threatens millions of Americans with technological unemployment.

We have the tools - the legislation and the programs to put men back to work - and in 1961 we are going to do it.

Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups.

This is the greatest country in the world.

Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement.